I want you to get your Bibles and go to the book of Exodus chapter number 4 is 14 verse 4 through 9 and then we’re gonna skip down to 13 through 18 the book of Exodus chapter number 14 verse 4 through 9 and then we’re gonna go to 9 through 13 but before we read it I want you to if you can in your mind and your heart and your spirit in order to feel the impact of the text once you have it step to your feet for the reading of the word and after this you can sit the rest of the time and I didn’t tell you to wear them shoes don’t blame me looking
cute is expensive amen amen I want you to go back in your mind I want you I want to put the text in context these are the people of God but they haven’t really been the people of God for a long time they have been in captivity for 400 years in Egypt they have been in Egypt 430 years but the last 400 years they have been enslaved now we consider the fact that 40 years is typically in scriptures a generation 10 generations are living off of the memory of God there is some memory of God left because he they they knew
enough about him after 10 generations to steal call on him but their their their faith in their theology and their understanding of God is diluted by time and polluted by association with the Egyptians this is proven because later when they get in the wilderness and they try to build an image of God they build the image of the Egyptians God because who you hang out with does affect you and yet with just a little bit of faith that they had left enough to call on God by by reason of the intense bondage that was placed on them they cried unto God
